International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property 
The second G7 Roma-Lyon Group meeting was held in Rome from 3 to 5 October. This work group, created under the 2001 G8 Italian Presidency, is run by the law enforcement sector and is devoted to formulating counter-terrorism strategies and combating transnational crimes.
Very active in his youth in the Young Catholic movement, Persegati organized among other things the reception of European refugees in the United States during the 1950s. He returned to Italy and collaborated with Caritas International, and was also representative of the Holy See to the FAO, where he distinguished himself for his qualities as an organizer. In 1972 he was appointed Secretary-General...
On 12 October, ICCROM's Director-General, Dr Stefano De Caro, received the visit of Roberto Nardi, President of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM).
On 12 October, a group of trainees attending the course on Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings visited ICCROM.
In September 2017, Mr Peter Rockwell, noted sculptor and specialist in historic stone carving techniques, made a significant donation of books and photographic documentation to the ICCROM Library and Archive. These materials were gifted on the occasion of Rockwell’s return to the United States after over five decades of residence in Rome.
On 11 October, a group of students led by Prof Roland Lenz from the State Academy of the Arts in Stuttgart (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) visited ICCROM.
ICCROM’s Director-General Dr Stefano De Caro joined Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO in praising Dr Maamoun Abdulkarim of Syria, for his tireless efforts to safeguard the country’s cultural assets during these years of war. Dr Abdulkarim’s five-year term as Syria’s Director-General for Museums and Antiquities coincided with a devastating conflict which has left hundreds of thousands of...
It is with sadness that ICCROM announces the recent passing of Maurizio Marabelli on 19 September 2017, after a long illness.A graduate of Chemistry from the Sapienza University of Rome, he began his career in 1964 at the Istituto Centrale del Restauro (ICR; now Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro ̶ ISCR). In 1980 he became the Director of the Chemistry Laboratory, a position he...
On 27 September, ICCROM received the visit of a delegation of six high-level professionals from Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, China.
The first RE-ORG workshop ever held in Africa took place at the Jos National Museum, Nigeria in May 2017. After its conclusion, participants from 12 museums from every corner of